Technique

Don't blink...

As the last word fell.

Chen Qiong Zhi's body vanished from her spot at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

Immediately after, a white line shot out!

In the blink of an eye, it streaked past Li Yi, ruffling the tips of his hair, and came to a steady stop behind him.

"How was that? This speed and power, it's close to the limit for an Initial Rank Evolver. Could you see it?"

Chen Qiong Zhi crossed her arms, calm and composed.

Cai Xiaodong, watching from the side, swallowed hard. He couldn't see it, not at all.

Li Yi paused for a moment before speaking:

"As expected of you, Instructor. I only noticed that you initiated your movement purely by engaging your ankle, with no other part of your body involved. And in the instant you passed me, your fingers swept past my eyes. Then you used two steps to push off the ground to come to a sudden stop."

Chen Qiong Zhi's smile faltered slightly:

"Not bad. You actually saw seventy percent of my movements, missing only thirty percent."

Li Yi shook his head:

"I didn't 'see' it, Instructor. Based on the subtle movements of your body during your initiation and sudden stop, I instantly constructed a corresponding movement model in my mind."

"Interesting. Is this the fundamental reason why you're always so composed in combat, able to easily predict your opponent's actions?"

"Yes."

"However, with this predictive ability of yours, wouldn't it fail if the speed exceeds your reaction time? For example, although you saw my movements just now, you couldn't react because your speed isn't that fast yet."

"Yes, Instructor. After all, I'm not an Evolver yet."

Li Yi nodded. Breaking limits and being an Evolver were two different things.

Not an Evolver yet...

Chen Qiong Zhi felt a bit like she'd been shown up and felt a slight twinge.

But she quickly changed the subject:

"Since you couldn't react to the speed of an Initial Rank Evolver just now, I'll adjust the difficulty slightly. I'll spar with you using more than sixty percent of my speed and power to help you hone your skills. How about that?"

"That would be greatly appreciated, Instructor."

Standard Time 10:00 AM.

Inside the training hall.

Cai Xiaodong yawned and couldn't help but exclaim:

"Li Yi, you're still doing extra training? How come you still have so much energy?"

"Because I ate three extra pieces of high-energy Xeno-Beast Meat."

The Pluto Mech stood to the side, as imposing as a mountain.

Cai Xiaodong's voice reached it, faint as a mosquito's hum.

However, the cockpit had a high degree of information collection capability.

Even the slightest sound signal would be received and transmitted to the pilot's mind.

Although there would be a layer of filtering.

The sheer volume of information still placed immense pressure on the pilot.

Li Yi's so-called extra training was essentially to adapt to this long-term load.

And to skillfully extract beneficial information from this high-density data.

This adaptation would gradually improve the pilot's physical fitness and mental resilience the longer they spent inside the Divine Mech.

It's just that this process was very slow.

Only by activating divinity could the rate of physical improvement be accelerated.

Incidentally, activating divinity could also enhance mental strength, but the effect was not as pronounced as the improvement in physique.

This was also why individuals with composite divinity sequences could be stuck below Celestial Rank.

Because the rate of mental strength improvement was far slower than the rate of physical improvement.

"You can head back now. Same as usual, I won't be going back tonight."

With that, Li Yi began to activate his divinity.

He was now proficient in the free emission and reception of divinity, with the current sustained duration being about 5 seconds.

A bone-chilling coldness instantly swept towards Cai Xiaodong.

Even though the weather wasn't cold, and his skin felt warm to the touch, he felt an indescribable chill deep in his heart.

Shivering involuntarily, Cai Xiaodong shrank back and left.

"No way, I can't compare to you, you ox. I trained with the instructor for an hour barehanded, and you still have the energy to pilot the Pluto Mech for over two hours? You're a damn beast!"

Inside the bright cockpit.

The Pluto Mech's divinity, faint and ethereal, shone into Li Yi's body.

A layer of dark, obscure light slowly flowed across his skin.

After 5 seconds, the Pluto Mech's divinity vanished without a trace.

Li Yi's body trembled, and he slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

At this moment, his body felt as if it had received a full-body massage; it was incredibly comfortable.

"Today's gains were good."

Now, he could sustain divinity activation for 5 seconds, and re-activate it every 5 minutes.

This was a new trick he had discovered.

Before, the cooldown period after 5 seconds was at least twenty to thirty minutes.

Now, he just needed to compress the redundant memory fragments in his mind, allowing his soul to 'fly up,' to get close to the omnipresent divinity within the Pluto Mech and activate it.

After several hours, he had exceeded his body's radiation acceptance limit and had to stop further activation.

"The bottleneck of divinity activation is considered somewhat resolved."

"Only the Divinity Technique and slow activation speed remain as bottlenecks."

"The Divinity Technique probably can't be fixed in the short term. I'll need to focus more on capturing and controlling memories to shorten the activation time."

Finally, at precisely 12:00 standard time, Li Yi completed his self-imposed extra training goals for the day and fell into a deep sleep.

Next, he would have to busy himself in his dreams.

Truly a 007.

The next day.

In the closed training hall.

Chen Qiong Zhi scanned everyone and nodded slowly.

"It seems everyone rested well last night; your overall spirit and energy have improved by a small margin."

"Since the effects were remarkable, today's difficulty will be increased by another 10%, pushing you closer to your limits."

"I believe many of you still have room to spare, still harboring potential as rich as a hidden mine."

"Fang Tao, lead the warm-up! We'll start gravity training in 10 minutes!"

Chen Qiong Zhi continued to push everyone as usual.

After completing the third round of gravity shuttle runs, Li Yi encountered Zhang Xuqiang unexpectedly while resting in the nutrition pod.

"What a coincidence. Three days have passed. Have you considered what I discussed with you before?"

Upon seeing Li Yi, Zhang Xuqiang blocked his path and spoke with a smile.

His innocent and harmless expression made it seem as if their previous conflict never happened.

"What a coincidence, Zhang Xuqiang. I was looking for you too."

Li Yi smiled. "After today's training camp, I plan to select people from the 42nd rank and challenge them, crossing ranks all the way to you. Additionally, I can offer 1 minute of divinity radiation time to bet against you. I'll bet 1 minute against your 2 minutes, how about it? Do you dare?"

Zhang Xuqiang was taken aback. "Did you get arrogant after beating Zhang Qingjian?"

This kid had now seen the difference in rankings and actually wanted to fight him?

"What? Didn't you personally say that I had a chance of beating you before? Now you think I'm arrogant?"

Zhang Xuqiang, prompted by Li Yi, remembered that when he first met Li Yi, he had indeed said something similar to lure Li Yi into a bet.

"No, no, that's great. I welcome you to challenge me anytime."

"Then let's make a contract."

"Also, besides challenging you, I need to challenge Zhang Wenqiang, Zhang Wuqiang, Zhang Xiao, Qian Tongyue, Qian Shaoyue, Gu Tianyi, and Chen Liji. They are all members of your Zhang clan or relatives. As their elder brother, can you get them to accept the wager too?"

What the hell?

This time, Zhang Xuqiang was completely stunned by Li Yi.

So confident? What was he trying to do?

Or was it just extreme arrogance?